Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says he sees no reason why the certification of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) couldn’t be complete by...
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), along with gay and lesbian Reps. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Jared Polis (D-CO), and David Cicilline (D-RI), today sent a letter to President Obama...
ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which has lived in Congress in one form or another since 1974, was again supposed to be reintroduced in Congress today...
Reps. David Cicilline and Jerrold Nadler introduce the DOMA repeal bill A bill to repeal DOMA, the ban of federal recognition of same-sex marriages, was introduced into...
Here’s a rundown of major “good” results — the good, as in, good for progressives and the LGBT community. I’ll update this throughout the day, but...
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series today of articles titled, “Election Results.” Stay tuned. Four of the LGBT community’s leadership organizations, The National...
Purely discrimination.
The Speaker appears to suggest the Congressman is in violation of House ethics rules, and implies he could be subject to prosecution.
Sweeping Anti-Gay Bill Being Pushed by NOM and Religious Extremists
Today, 145 House Democrats signed onto an amicus brief denouncing DOMA as unconstitutional. The amicus brief was in support of Edie Windsor, in the case of Edith Schlain...
Yesterday, in an impressive pro-equality statement, 132 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives — led by Nancy Pelosi — signed an amicus brief stating DOMA...
132 Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives today filed an amicus brief detailing their opposition to DOMA, the federal Defense of Marriage Act that...